The Staff Lounge is open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Lunch is available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Monday, March 13 |
Thai coconut chicken chili |
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Tuesday, March 14 |
Chicken shawarma |
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Wednesday, March 15 |
Irish beef stew |
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Thursday, March 16 |
Texas barbecued chicken |
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Friday, March 17 |
Fish and chips (sole) |
Please note this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below:
Grading Multiple-Attempt Assessments
When grading submissions with multiple attempts, instructors no longer need to close an attempt then select a different attempt. It is now possible to navigate directly between a student’s attempts using a drop-down menu in the top-left corner of the page.
Gradebook Student List View – Sorting Controls
Instructors can now sort the Gradebook Student list view on the Overall Grade column to identify students with grades at a grade boundary, or to order students from highest to lower grade, or vice versa.
Course Activity Report Table Enhancements
The table has been updated to make it easier to:
Instructors can now reschedule announcements without having to recreate them, by changing the show on and hide after fields to a future date.
Deactivating Post Activity in Discussions
There is now a checkbox option in the Discussion Settings panel. When checked, participants cannot edit or delete discussion posts.
Need additional support? The IL Support Centre is here to help!
Are you about to retire? Consider joining the Humber College Retirees’ Association (HCRA).
This is a way to keep in touch with colleagues and even to meet those fellow employees your work did not give you a chance to know better.
Most of our activities are social, but we also support students through the Retirees' Bursary and Scholarship Programs.
Your retirement information from HR will include the HCRA brochure that has membership information. Or you can go to the “Come Join Us” webpage at the address below.
An additional note: HCRA membership is open to all former employees of Humber College, part time and short-term contract. These employees are not formally “retired” so HR will not convey HCRA info to them. Tell any colleagues of this membership opportunity.
It is with mixed emotions that I announce the departure of one of our long-standing community members, Vicki DiGiovanni, after more than 24 years of dedicated service to the College.
Vicki started at Humber 1998 as a part time customer service representative for the Registrar’s office. From there, she moved to the Digital Imaging Training Centre which ultimately became a unit within the School of Media Studies. In 2009, Vicki was hired as the Assistant to the Director of Student Access, Wellness and Development. Shortly after that, she was promoted to Manager of Student Access, Wellness and Development, which evolved to Manager, SWAC Services.
Throughout her tenure at Humber, Vicki has been an instrumental member of our community, serving as a passionate and committed leader, mentor, and colleague. Her contributions have had a lasting impact on countless students and employees alike, and she will be deeply missed. Vicki’s commitment to student success has been exemplary, and her dedication to fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment has been unwavering. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Vicki for her many years of service to Humber College, and we wish her all the best in her future endeavors. While we will miss her greatly, we are confident that she will continue to make a difference wherever she goes.
Leah State
Director, Student Wellbeing
March 27 to April 14 is Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ) season!
Students will receive their unique SFQ link in their Blackboard email address at the start of the SFQ season. Please remember to complete these two important steps:
1. Set 20-minutes of in-class time for students to complete the SFQ
2. Enable the SFQ tool for your Blackboard course:
As part of the Finch West Light Rail Transit (LRT) Project, crews will continue transmission watermain works.
Lane restrictions on Hwy 27 (south of Humber College Blvd) will be in effect 24 hours a day from Monday, March 13 through to Saturday, March 18. Lanes will be restricted to one northbound and one southbound.
We advise the Humber community to access North Campus through Hwy 427 and Finch Avenue to avoid the construction. Please allow yourself additional time for travel.
Please take extra care when navigating near work sites, and always make eye contact with the driver before crossing in front of any equipment or vehicle.
Please visit us at www.metrolinx.com/finchwestlrt for up-to-date information.
The Esthetician/Spa Management students are excited to share with you our new winter promotions!
Available March 7 to April 21, 2023
Spa Services & Retail Boutique
Tuesday to Thursday
9:15 a.m. to 1 p.m.
2:45 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Friday
10:15 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Retail Boutique
Monday & Friday
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Humber Spa is located in RM A109 at North Campus.
Book your appointment today at 416.675.5033 or email thehumberspa@humber.ca.
Spa treatments are provided in alignment with the Esthetician/Spa Management curriculum, and therefore some treatments may be offered for a limited time at certain points of the year.
Thank you to all Humber and University of Guelph-Humber Support Staff who attended the 2023 Support Staff Professional Development workshops from February 27 to March 3. You continue to go above and beyond in your roles to support colleagues, students, and the community. Thank you!
Our facilitators for the sessions reminded and taught us how we can:
Thank you to our leaders, listed below, for their continued support and for participating in this event by opening workshops.
Lastly, a round of applause to the following attendees who were randomly selected to receive a prize.
For those of you that missed the workshops, recordings for some of the sessions will be posted on the HROE website shortly and we will communicate once they are ready to be viewed.
We look forward to next year’s Support Staff Professional Development Event.
Questions? Please email us at oe@humber.ca.
Become Certified as a Microsoft Azure Professional
Humber Continuous Professional Learning is offering 25 per cent off to the first 10 Humber employees, and current students, to enrol in the Microsoft Azure bootcamp micro-credential starting on April 11 .
Humber’s accredited AZMS 101 provides learners with insights and subject-matter expertise on the Azure Open AI platform, along with key skills, and curated enterprise-ready competencies.
Entry-level, seasoned IT and big data professionals will all benefit from this bootcamp. Future-proof your career and enter the workforce as a certified Microsoft Azure professional.
Use Humber employee and student discount code: RBC25 and enrol today
For more information view attached poster/flyer.
Contact:
Sara Marques, B.A (Hons) M.A, she/her/hers
Proposal Solutions Manager, Continuous Professional Learning
Phone: 416.675.6622 x5121
Email: sara.marques@humber.ca
Displacement and Diaspora Seeking an interdisciplinary, modern understanding of the concepts
Abstract submission: https://humber.ca/tifa/call-proposals
Contact: tifa@humber.ca
Submission Deadline: May 14, 2023
Conference Date: September 29 to 30, 2023
Conference Fee: Waived for Humber Faculty (includes registration, some meals, snacks and a reception)
Location: The Harbourfront Centre (235 Queen’s Key West, Toronto)
Hosts: Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Humber College, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA)
Keynote Speaker: Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of four books: This Wound is a World, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field, A History of My Brief Body, and A Minor Chorus.
Call for Proposals: “The formation of a diaspora could be articulated as the quintessential journey into becoming; a process marked by incessant regoupings, recreations, and reiteration. Together these stressed actions strive to open up new spaces of discursive and performative postcolonial consciousness.” - Okwui Enwezor (Nigerian poet, art historian, and curator: 1963-2019)
At COP26, the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Tuvalu’s foreign minister Simon Kofe delivered a pre-recorded address to the delegates standing behind a podium knee-deep in water to highlight the rapid effects climate change is having on his country. The island nation of Tuvalu, located in the South Pacific, is just over four metres above sea level. It’s been predicted that as soon as 30 years from now, the country will be completely submerged, leaving its population of about 11,000 without a home. They would be part of a predicted 200 million environmental refugees that could exist within the next 30 years. When we think of displacement and diaspora, we often think of refugees displaced by war and imperialism, but our conception of these terms is growing, particularly as we face increasingly bleak environmental outlooks, but the very idea of what it means to be displaced and to be part of a diaspora is changing as well.
According to UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency, at the beginning of 2022, of the 89 million people displaced worldwide, over 53 million people were internally displaced, meaning despite being separated from their homelands, they have not crossed a border to find refuge. In settler colonial states like Canada, there is also a growing understanding of the effects of Indigenous displacement (historic and ongoing) and an increasing understanding of urban Indigenous communities as forming a diaspora as well. This conference seeks to explore displacement and the concept of diaspora through an interdisciplinary lens. Whether due to war, colonialism, or environmental deterioration, we are seeking analyses of the causes of displacement, and we want to hear stories from and about the diaspora. Whether it be studies of diasporic literature, analyses of environmentally-influenced migration, or glimpses into what it means to be part of a digital diaspora, we are seeking to have our understanding of the terms diaspora and displacement challenged and reshaped.
Themes/Topics: • Activism • Alienation and displacement • Art and film • Belonging and Belongingness • Citizenship • Climate change displacement • Communities of culture (and cultures of healing) • Concept of home • Crime displacement • Cultural identity and community • Cultural hybridity (Hybridized cultural practice) • Diasporic cinema • Diaspora communities • Diasporic culture • Diaspora curriculum • Diaspora geopolitics • Diaspora as social movements • Diasporic literature(s)/Canadian literature • Diaspora tourism • Digital diaspora • Food in the diaspora • Forced displacement • Gendered transnational selves • Human rights • Homeland politics • Hostlands and homelands • Imagined communities • Immigration and emigration • Imperialism • Indigenous diaspora within settler colonial states • Instability of national categories • Internal displacement • Internment • Invisibility • Language socialization • Memory-making, Nostalgia and In-Betweeness • Music and visual culture • Public policy • Post coloniality and the politics of location • Psychology of displacement • Queer diasporas • Refugees • Religious identity and diaspora • Spaces of visibility and resistance • Statelessness • Transnational literature • Trauma and terror • War crimes
Our conference committee welcomes individual presentation proposals of 300 words, and panel proposals (3 people max) of 900 words, based on any of the above themes. This will be the ninth annual Humber@TIFA interdisciplinary conference held by Humber College’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences in association with the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA), one of the most celebrated literary festivals in the world. TIFA is located at the Harbourfront Centre, one of downtown Toronto’s major cultural and artistic venues.